2018 porsche 911 gt3

I’m no stranger to road trips, and have a habit of doing them in fun cars. Most of the time they go as planned; other times they go very badly. But a trip from London to Le Mans and back in a 2018 Porsche 911 GT3, one of the most hardcore and extreme Porsches you can buy, was thankfully be one of the smoother ones—and surprisingly more comfortable than anticipated. (Full Disclosure: Porsche provided a GT3 to get from London to the 24 Hours of Le Mans and paddock and team access, along with a hotel in France, but Jalopnik paid for travel from America to Europe and other expenses.) Why A GT3? The 911 GT3 is one of the more sporting variants of the current 911 lineup, which is saying something. It’s a lighter, more powerful, nimbler version of an already great sports car. With 500 horsepower on tap from its 4.0 liter flat-6 engine, the GT3 is more than capable of gobbling up miles at a fair rate of knots, whether on the road or around a circuit. And unlike most 911s … [Read more...] about A 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 Is Also A Surprisingly Great Road Trip Car

We know just the place in Georgia to get great fried chicken livers, and we had just the car to go get them. It was the 2018 Porsche 911 GT3, a car so blazingly fast that it conquered the Nurburgring in 7:12.7. We found the right twisty country roads for the drive, too, because that's what you do in the 911 GT3. How were they? Read our first drive review to find out. Tesla is doing everything it can to ramp up Model 3 production to 5,000 units per week, including setting up a new production line in a tent. Tesla CEO said the line went up quickly and with minimal resources, and the first Model 3 AWD performance variant came off that line. The Toyota TS050 Hybrid Le Mans prototype just won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP1 class, and now it appears that it will become the basis for a new hypercar from Toyota. Toyota teased the car with the GR Super Sport concept at the Tokyo Motor Auto Salon this past January. The car's 986-horsepower hybrid powertrain will likely be used in the street … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 first drive, Tesla building cars in a tent, Toyota building a hypercar: Car News Headlines

There’s one place where you can get great fried chicken livers on a Sunday morning in Georgia, before church is out. It’s a low-ceiling kind of place, tacked on to a gas station, the hallmark of fine low-priced dining across the south. Over the first glorious spring weekend this year, I had just the thing to get there. And I knew the fastest way to get there, not the highway route, but a snake-backed two-lane with enough kinks to merit its own DSM classification. It’s the 2018 Porsche 911 GT3, a car so blisteringly fast it set a stunning 7:12.7 lap time on the Nurburgring. With the 911 GT3, Porsche isn’t chasing raw numbers, though. “We’re chasing a feel,” Porsche’s sports-car guru Andreas Preuninger told us last year. MORE: The Porsche 911 GT3 doesn’t care about lap times, so just deal with it How does it get there? All the usual freak flags fly with its 4.0-liter flat-6 engine. Like any other living, breathing creature, the 911 … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 first drive review: Country roads and chicken livers

The 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 is a dream car. It's a track-bred monster that you can take home and keep in the garage. There's no question that it's incredible to drive; my Cars.com colleague Aaron Bragman recently spent some quality time with the 911 GT3 out on the track at Roebling Road Raceway near Savannah, Ga., and walked away smitten. Related: 2018 Porsche 911 GT3: Icon of the Road Hits the Track I, of course, had to put that conclusion to the test for myself on a driving date through the canyons of Los Angeles (OK, maybe like three dates), and I can definitively say this: It's a hell of a car. Everything works in such wonderful harmony, from the suspension to the dialed-in steering to the naturally aspirated flat-six-cylinder engine that sings all the way up to nearly 9,000 rpm. Driving the Porsche 911 GT3 hard is a uniquely rewarding experience, and it's the rare car that makes you a better driver. I didn't come close to touching its limit as a nonprofessional race driver, but … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3: Great to Date, But Is It Monogamy Material?

The 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS has been spotted at the Nurburgring again. Folks at Bridge to Gantry have been timing the car as it set hot lap after hot lap and it is believed to have clocked a sub-7 min lap. According to Dale Lomas and his trusty stopwatch, the GT3 RS was clocked at 6 min 56 seconds. That’s 9 seconds slower than the 700 hp GT2 RS. Meanwhile, Chevrolet has also been gunning for Nurburgring glory. The Corvette ZR1 was spotted at the track, however it couldn’t match the pace set by the GT3 RS. The ZR1 registered an unofficial time of 7 min 12 seconds. Still, that’s 7 seconds faster than its predecessor, the C6 Corvette ZR1. The current production car lap record of the track stands at 6 min 47.3 seconds set by the 911 GT2 RS back in September 2017. That said, the ultimate lap record of 6 min 11.1 seconds set by Stefan Bellof in a Porsche 956 back in 1983 still stands to this day. Porsche is likely to challenge it later this year in their 919 Evo LMP1 … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS may have set a sub-7 min Nurburgring lap

Tweet TweetThe Porsche 911 GT3 in its newest form will arrive in the Land Down Under this autumn, the sports car being set with a base price of AU$327,100. Even if it comes with a spicy price, the all-new 2018 Porsche 911 GT3, which is considered the most powerful variant, now features both an automatic as well a newly-introduced six-manual transmission. This would be the sports car`s main highlight for this year`s edition. The 911 GT3 was criticized for not receiving a manual transmission, but with the 2018 GT3 991.5-based model, it is now offered with the aforementioned gearbox, offering purists the real thrill of driving an exquisite model. Under the hood, the all-new 2018 Porsche GT3 packs the brand-new 4.0-liter naturally-aspirated six-cylinder engine, now churning out 368 kW, which his rather the same power and torque as the 911 GT3 Cup racer. With a total weight of 1,430 kg and packed with lightweight chassis, 2018 Porsche GT3 can sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in around 3.4 … [Read more...] about Australia: 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 Announced with Impressive Performance

Tweet TweetThe advantage of an online configurator is that you can customize a certain model just by browsing through the hundreds of available features of the car`s exterior, interior and mechanical stuff. Usually, the price tags are also provided. In case you love the recently unveiled 2018 Porsche 911 GT3, then you should now that the model is also available online, with Porsche manufacturer launching the official configurator in the United States. In the United States, the new 2018 911 GT3 costs at least $143,600, with the price going up depending on the optional goodies you want extra for you model. In case you don’t want to settle with a particular exterior colour, then you can choose between 15 different paintjobs, including the $4,220 package with the Miami Blue, which is displayed on the model seen below in the media gallery. You can also opt for the new wheels – unfortunately, just one type of wheels – with the possibility of also choosing between four … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 – Online Configurator Is Now at Your Disposal

The new Porsche 911 GT3 RS is out. This is the second and final GT3 RS that will be based on the current 991 platform, which is set to be replaced by a 992 generation later this year. What a bow out for the ultimate motorsports Porsche for the road. The 4.0 litre six-cylinder naturally aspirated engine has been massaged to put out 20 hp more for 520 hp at 8,250 rpm. The same engine in the previous GT3 RS and current standard GT3 is rated at 500 hp. The gains are from new intake and exhaust systems, as well as tweaks to the engine management. The flat-six, which revs to 9,000 rpm, is mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch PDK automatic gearbox. Like before, there’s no manual option. The GT3 RS accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds, which is a tenth faster than the car it replaces. Top speed is up slightly from 310 to 312 km/h. Autocar reports that the engine actually develops more power than is claimed and could have been homologated at 530 hp, but Porsche decided to err on … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

I stopped counting at 11, any significance to the number a happy coincidence. I always record my conversations with Randy Pobst, held in the doorway of whatever car he’s just lapped. It’s best to get him while everything’s fresh, before anyone says anything that might color his impressions. Today, his impressions were things of beauty.“There’s very little to complain about,” he said. “It behaves so beautifully. The balance is so beautiful. You still have to be a little bit careful not going to power too soon. You still have to remember you’re in a 911 in situations like that.”Beauty, being subjective, is of course in the eye of the beholder, and it was all Randy could get a hold of.“It was a beautiful experience, like there was a light from heaven shining down on the car going around the track,” he said. “It was that kind of … otherworldly kind of perfection. Incredibly enjoyable. Not much to complain … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 First Test: Beauty Beheld

These are official images of the 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, first posted by Australia’s Drive. The pics have since been removed, but what goes online is sure to be captured and shared. According to reports, the ultimate 911 will come with 20 extra horses, which takes things to 520 hp from the naturally aspirated 4.0 litre flat-six that revs till 9,000 rpm. That gives the RS a lead over the 500 hp from the regular GT3. No torque figures have been mentioned but the outgoing GT3 RS and today’s GT3 has 460 Nm. This green monster is expected to ship with a PDK auto gearbox – no manual. The above has led to a slightly faster 0-100 km/h time, a tenth faster at 3.2 seconds. The 312 km/h top speed is 2 km/h higher than before.Word is that Porsche has retuned the car’s rear-wheel steering system and tweaked the aerodynamics. The latter includes new NACA-styled ducts, a reshaped front bumper with airflow-improving ducts, and a reshaped rear bumper with larger air extraction … [Read more...] about 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS – official pics, info leaked